Weirdware: Touchable Unconventional Computers

“Packed with stories of real experiments and mind-being ideas, this timely book will delight curious readers and anyone dreaming of a future beyond silicon.” Dr Dan Nicolau Jr., Reader, King’s College London, UK

“A fully comprehensive survey of physical, chemical, and biological computing prototypes—a field in which almost no comparable popular-science books exist.” Dr Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Professor, Waseda University, Japan, Professor Emeritus, Kobe University, Japan

“The book MUST be published. It provides a fresh and comprehensive view of computation in general and a vision of a new world: living computers.” Prof. Dr Hab. Konrad Szaciłowski, Professor, AGH University of Kraków, Poland

Andrew Adamatzky is Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. His research spans molecular and reaction–diffusion computing, collision-based computation, cellular automata, slime mould computing, massive parallelism, applied mathematics, complexity science, nature-inspired optimisation, collective intelligence, robotics and bionics, computational psychology, non-linear science, and novel hardware for future and emergent computation. He is the author of seven books, including Reaction-Diffusion Computing, Dynamics of Crow Minds, and Physarum Machines, and has edited more than thirty volumes in computing, such as Collision-Based Computing, Game of Life Cellular Automata, Memristor Networks, Fungal Machines, and Post-Apocalyptic Computing. Professor Adamatzky is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cellular Automata and the Journal of Unconventional Computing, and Editor-in-Chief of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems and Parallel Processing Letters.